Quotes by : William O. Douglas

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived....

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American....

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days....

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday....

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree....

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when....

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens....

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas,....